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visits the shore for a day or so and then returns. To my mind this is a 
more reasonable way of accounting for his presence than to assume that he 
has been left behind. If these facts are as stated, it is to be presumed 
that scup are local fish, and do not have their localities any more than 
Tautog, about the propriety of classification of which as a local fish there 
is no question.” 
The Chogset, or Cunner, or Bergall, Ctenolabrus adspersus , is very simi¬ 
lar in appearance to the Tautog, though much smaller and far less 
important. Its range is more northerly. I can find no record of its 
occurrence south of New Jersey. DeKay remarks : “ I am not aware that 
it is found south of Delaware Bay.” From New York to the Straits of 
Canso the species is exceedingly aDundant, being found everywhere in 
harbors and bays, particularly in the vicinity of fish houses, where offal is 
thrown overboard. Cuvier had specimens from Newfoundland, but it 
abounds on the coast of Labrador. It is closely related to the “ Gold- 
sinny,” Ctenolabrus rupestris , and the “Connor” or “Gilt-head,” 
Crenilabrus melops , of Great Britain and adjoining Europe. It has 
numerous conmon names. In Southern New England it is called “ Chog¬ 
set,” a name of Indian origin, sometimes pronounced Cachogset. This 
name appears to have been in occasional use as far west as New YMrk, 
where, in Mitchill’s time, it was also called “ Bluefish.” In Maine, the 
British Provinces, and in some parts of Massachusetts the name “ Cunner ” 
is in use, evidently having been brought over by the English colonists 
who remembered a very similar fish at home which has this name. In 
New York, the name “ Burgall ” has continued in use since the revo- 
